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Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Surgical Technique of Clavicular Osteotomies in Shoulder Width Reduction
Shoulder width reduction is done by shortening the length of the...
The shape and appearance of the forehead is highly influenced by...
Background: The evolution of rhinoplasty surgery over the past twenty years...
Aging of the forehead affects multiple levels of tissue. Brows sag, horizontal wrinkle lines develop and vertical glabellar wrinkles lines/folds become more pronounced. Botox remains the mainstay of early prevention or treatment of these forehead changes. But unchecked or more advanced forehand aging is ultimately treated by a browlift operation. A browlift is the primary Read More…
Background: Chin augmentation is most commonly done by the placement of an implant on the end of the bone. Its primary objective is to provide a horizontal increase of the most anterior chin projection point, the pogonion, as best seen in a profile view. Such horizontal chin implants today most commonly have long lateral extensions Read More…
Background: The back is an area that is prone to develop thickness due to fat accumulation and skin rolls. This seems to be more common in women, in certain body types and with aging and weight gain. These back rolls typically develop as more obliquely oriented sagging tissues excesses. The standard treatment for back ‘lipodystrophy’ Read More…
Background: Poland syndrome is a well known congenital chest deformity typically affecting only one side of the body. It is most commonly characterized by underdevelopment of the pectorals muscle with a higher and often smaller nipple-areolar complex. They are many other potential anatomic abnormalities such as anomalies of the rib cage and the ipsilateral upper Read More…
Background: Rib removal has proven to be a successful waistline reshaping procedure in the properly selected patient. Good patients for the procedure are thinner patients that do not have a lot of subcutaneous body fat. Patients that have had prior liposuction and have expended all other surgical efforts for their waistline would also usually qualify. Read More…
Background: Pectoral implants in men are in some ways similar to breast implants in women. Their similarities are that both implant types are placed in the submuscular position and can be surgically inserted through an axillary incision. But this is where their similarities end and they become divergent. Pectoral implants are made of soft solid Read More…
Brow bone enhancement is often done as part of an overall forehead augmentation procedure/implant for both men and women. When only brow bone augmentation is requested, however, this is usually an exclusive male aesthetic procedure. Because of the need to limit the extent of any scalp incisions to the smallest extent, a premade custom brow Read More…
Background: Successful buttock augmentation can be done with either fat injections or implants. But in very thin patients fat injections are not a buttock augmentation option ad implants have to be used. In such thin patients the best location for buttock implants is in the intramuscular location. This provides the best camouflage of their outline Read More…
Background: One of the key male distinguishing features of the upper third of the face are the brow bones. It is a very gender specific facial feature that truly separates a male vs a female facial appearance. One other aesthetic aspect of having some brow bone protrusion is that it also helps provide some coverage Read More…
Background: Physically changing one’s height in adults can be accomplished by a variety of non-surgical and surgical methods. The historic non-surgical method was the placement of lifts in one’s shoes to the most contemporary method of lower limb lengthening. Shoe lifts are the simplest method and height increases of up to 1’’ are usually obtained. Read More…
Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Surgical Technique of Clavicular Osteotomies in Shoulder Width Reduction
Shoulder width reduction is done by shortening the length of the...
The shape and appearance of the forehead is highly influenced by...
Background: The evolution of rhinoplasty surgery over the past twenty years...